Kevin forgot a few things. If you make a deal with the Devil, the Devil comes to collect. If you negotiate with terrorists, the terrorists up their demands. And finally, when you show yourself to be untrustworthy and a frequent bad faith actor, people don't trust you and know your word is worthless. And now Kevin McCarthy gets his just desserts. If he was smart, he would quit and make his successor's job even tougher with an even slimmer majority.
Well deserved for bowing down to #TraitorTrump after January 6th, for his Benghazi hearings to take down Clinton & for his fake Biden impeachment hearings.
I don't know when the shift happened, from governing and compromise and using the best ideas from both sides of the aisle....to a scorched earth, extremist, brinkmanship, holding congress hostage. Let's start with making Congress great again. Also, technically, Donald Trump could be nominated for Speaker of the House. Send in the clowns, they're already here.
1) Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, in my Washington, D.C. youth; 2) Kevin McCarthy of California, in my California old age; two Republican peas/pees in a pod.
Thank you for speaking honestly about Kevin McCarthy. Would that the talking heads and scribblers of the mainstream media did likewise. Will reporters ever acknowledge that among Republicans it is a matter of the degree of their extremism, not whether they are extremists or not? Has anyone heard Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney ever condemn their Party’s state by state efforts to cripple democracy? Have any spoken out against court packing or radical gerrymandering? No, because to a person every Republican endorses the agenda. “Good Republicans” may not be as vulgar as Donald Trump, tawdry as Lauren Boebert, or as coarse as Marjorie Taylor Greene but they all support the same goals. This is why the GOP’s embrace of authoritarianism should surprise no one. The Party has always been a blend of plutocrats and lunatics in uneven measure with the former calling the shots while drawing energy from the latter in order to win office and impose its agenda. What’s different now is that the barbarians have been brought inside the gates. Unlike his predecessors who exploited the whack-jobs but kept them outside the perimeter, Trump brought not only brought the them inside the compound he gave them the run of the entire run of the place and now the plutocrats are stuck with the result. Republicans have made their bed, now let them lie in it. A pox on all of them.
How an unprincipled criminal like Trump could gain so much power in the US to make an absolute mockery of our government is an enormous wake-up call to the fact that there is something fundamentally dysfunctional in our society. There needs to be some deep soul searching of values systems - hint - if money is the goal, there is no values system, you are nothing but a Skinner rat running the maze and kissing the boss’s ring in expectation of reward. Every politician who has taken money needs to look at the source and decide once and for all if this source serves the higher good and if they will continue to allow themselves to be bought.
I wish enough "principled Republicans" (are there any left?) would join with Democrats and elect Hakeem Jeffries as the House Speaker... but that's not going to happen.
I am not a US citizen and I don't live in the USA. My own nations, England and Australia, are very far from perfect and suffer the perfidy of corporate greed and right-wing political deceit, lies and favour of those with wealth, status and power, at the drastic cost to the majority who actually work to produce and keep the nations afloat.
The citizens of both of those nations are as gullible as those of the USA who support and vote for right-wing demagogues and political parties that will govern *against* their interests as year upon year of evidence has shown.
However, despite these similarities in ideology and self-aggrandisement of the right-wing, I have to wonder if anyone is left in the USA who actually cares how the nation has and does present itself to the World in recent times.
From being the bastion of the Free World, (despite its mistakes, misdeeds and critics), it appears more and more to be the basket-case of the Free World. I can't help but wonder if its dazzling display of internal conflict, confusion, collusion, coercion, contradiction - collapse - is a significant contributing factor to what appears to be an emboldening of even relatively minor nations, coups, incursions, rigged elections, and significant geopolitical realignments that are taking place.
I enjoy sport but generally abhor the over use of cliche´sporting analogies. Nevertheless, I will join the club on this one and suggest that not only has the USA dropped the ball but the referee has either left the field or lost control and the game has degenerated into an appalling free for all that will benefit no-one.
p.s. If you consider me to have no place to comment on the USA then so be it. Perhaps you are right. However, I write what I have with both sadness and regret and some hope that a Galahad will suddenly appear and teach the children how to behave.
Yes Robert, an unprincipled lout but worse than that a man who talked out of both sides of his mouth as well as his behind. Yes he stopped the Government shut down...working with the Democrats to help make that happen only to throw the same Democrats under the bus on CBS Sunday.
He made a handshake deal with Biden last May only to renege on his promise. Like the lizard you removed from your House, McCarthy constantly played both sides for his advantage, said what he needed to say in the moment in order to get what he wanted only to slither out the door and reverse his promise. His words are meaningless and worthless. And worst he condemned Trump one minute only to kiss his ring the next. To say that McCarthy is a spineless, self-serving opportunistic douchebag is insulting to douchebags. Good riddance sir. Please let the door hit you on your way out.
I actually met Donald Trump & I wrote an Op-Ed BEFORE the 2020 election called HOW I MET THE REAL DONALD TRUMP. In the article I quote Trump's sister Maryann and his niece Mary Trump who tell us exactly what they think of the man. They've both known Donald all their lives. Even Trump admits who he really is at the end of the piece. He says the quiet part out loud.
Somehow, I think all Democrats should've abstained on the vote. You >know< the Яepuблиkan$ will portray McCarthy's ouster as a Democratic hit job! Don't believe me. Believe what the Яepuблиkan$ have demonstrated for months. Had the Democrats abstained, the Яepuблиkan$ would have no way of blaming anybody but themselves. (Not that they wouldn't >try< anyway!)
Kevin forgot a few things. If you make a deal with the Devil, the Devil comes to collect. If you negotiate with terrorists, the terrorists up their demands. And finally, when you show yourself to be untrustworthy and a frequent bad faith actor, people don't trust you and know your word is worthless. And now Kevin McCarthy gets his just desserts. If he was smart, he would quit and make his successor's job even tougher with an even slimmer majority.
Well deserved for bowing down to #TraitorTrump after January 6th, for his Benghazi hearings to take down Clinton & for his fake Biden impeachment hearings.
Lying Kevin deserves whatever Karma brings him.
There are plenty more idiots to take his place. Lauren Bobert, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, et al. Will the American people ever grow up?
No tears for a sycophant bit by his own dog. I hope they keep reminding America why they cannot be trusted in government. Best campaign ad ever.
All Republicans in the house should be in jail for supporting Donald. He will join them soon
I don't know when the shift happened, from governing and compromise and using the best ideas from both sides of the aisle....to a scorched earth, extremist, brinkmanship, holding congress hostage. Let's start with making Congress great again. Also, technically, Donald Trump could be nominated for Speaker of the House. Send in the clowns, they're already here.
I’m horrified by the Republican Party and what they are doing to our democracy.
1) Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, in my Washington, D.C. youth; 2) Kevin McCarthy of California, in my California old age; two Republican peas/pees in a pod.
I agree on almost everything, but I hesitate to condemn Cassidy Hutchinson. I still think she was brave.
Thank you for speaking honestly about Kevin McCarthy. Would that the talking heads and scribblers of the mainstream media did likewise. Will reporters ever acknowledge that among Republicans it is a matter of the degree of their extremism, not whether they are extremists or not? Has anyone heard Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney ever condemn their Party’s state by state efforts to cripple democracy? Have any spoken out against court packing or radical gerrymandering? No, because to a person every Republican endorses the agenda. “Good Republicans” may not be as vulgar as Donald Trump, tawdry as Lauren Boebert, or as coarse as Marjorie Taylor Greene but they all support the same goals. This is why the GOP’s embrace of authoritarianism should surprise no one. The Party has always been a blend of plutocrats and lunatics in uneven measure with the former calling the shots while drawing energy from the latter in order to win office and impose its agenda. What’s different now is that the barbarians have been brought inside the gates. Unlike his predecessors who exploited the whack-jobs but kept them outside the perimeter, Trump brought not only brought the them inside the compound he gave them the run of the entire run of the place and now the plutocrats are stuck with the result. Republicans have made their bed, now let them lie in it. A pox on all of them.
How an unprincipled criminal like Trump could gain so much power in the US to make an absolute mockery of our government is an enormous wake-up call to the fact that there is something fundamentally dysfunctional in our society. There needs to be some deep soul searching of values systems - hint - if money is the goal, there is no values system, you are nothing but a Skinner rat running the maze and kissing the boss’s ring in expectation of reward. Every politician who has taken money needs to look at the source and decide once and for all if this source serves the higher good and if they will continue to allow themselves to be bought.
I wish enough "principled Republicans" (are there any left?) would join with Democrats and elect Hakeem Jeffries as the House Speaker... but that's not going to happen.
I am not a US citizen and I don't live in the USA. My own nations, England and Australia, are very far from perfect and suffer the perfidy of corporate greed and right-wing political deceit, lies and favour of those with wealth, status and power, at the drastic cost to the majority who actually work to produce and keep the nations afloat.
The citizens of both of those nations are as gullible as those of the USA who support and vote for right-wing demagogues and political parties that will govern *against* their interests as year upon year of evidence has shown.
However, despite these similarities in ideology and self-aggrandisement of the right-wing, I have to wonder if anyone is left in the USA who actually cares how the nation has and does present itself to the World in recent times.
From being the bastion of the Free World, (despite its mistakes, misdeeds and critics), it appears more and more to be the basket-case of the Free World. I can't help but wonder if its dazzling display of internal conflict, confusion, collusion, coercion, contradiction - collapse - is a significant contributing factor to what appears to be an emboldening of even relatively minor nations, coups, incursions, rigged elections, and significant geopolitical realignments that are taking place.
I enjoy sport but generally abhor the over use of cliche´sporting analogies. Nevertheless, I will join the club on this one and suggest that not only has the USA dropped the ball but the referee has either left the field or lost control and the game has degenerated into an appalling free for all that will benefit no-one.
p.s. If you consider me to have no place to comment on the USA then so be it. Perhaps you are right. However, I write what I have with both sadness and regret and some hope that a Galahad will suddenly appear and teach the children how to behave.
Yes Robert, an unprincipled lout but worse than that a man who talked out of both sides of his mouth as well as his behind. Yes he stopped the Government shut down...working with the Democrats to help make that happen only to throw the same Democrats under the bus on CBS Sunday.
He made a handshake deal with Biden last May only to renege on his promise. Like the lizard you removed from your House, McCarthy constantly played both sides for his advantage, said what he needed to say in the moment in order to get what he wanted only to slither out the door and reverse his promise. His words are meaningless and worthless. And worst he condemned Trump one minute only to kiss his ring the next. To say that McCarthy is a spineless, self-serving opportunistic douchebag is insulting to douchebags. Good riddance sir. Please let the door hit you on your way out.
I actually met Donald Trump & I wrote an Op-Ed BEFORE the 2020 election called HOW I MET THE REAL DONALD TRUMP. In the article I quote Trump's sister Maryann and his niece Mary Trump who tell us exactly what they think of the man. They've both known Donald all their lives. Even Trump admits who he really is at the end of the piece. He says the quiet part out loud.
HOW I MET THE REAL DONALD TRUMP
https://madaboutpolitics.com/threads/how-i-met-the-real-donald-trump.98299/
Somehow, I think all Democrats should've abstained on the vote. You >know< the Яepuблиkan$ will portray McCarthy's ouster as a Democratic hit job! Don't believe me. Believe what the Яepuблиkan$ have demonstrated for months. Had the Democrats abstained, the Яepuблиkan$ would have no way of blaming anybody but themselves. (Not that they wouldn't >try< anyway!)
Glad to see him go. But is anyone else upset that Matt Gaetz gets his way. Such awful people--one worse than the next.